We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West Category: Adversity
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) Category: Adversity
The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Adversity
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. – William Shakespeare Category: Adversity
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. – Christopher Lasch Category: Society
